10. Choose the correct tense to complete the sentence
The policeman................ the traffic when the Accident happened.
The correct answer is "was directing"
We need to understand the type of sentence to know what tends to use.
- We used past continuous tense to make the sentence grammatically correct because the sentence contains two continuous action.
- Subject is singular "the police man" and the singular subject needs singular verb
- From the options we understand that the sentence requires the singular verb in past continuous tense as the complete sentence is itself in past tense.
- Other option 'with direct' has directed, are incorrect as They are in future and present tense
Therefore, the correct sentence is "The policeman was directed the traffic when the Accident happened".
The correct answer is "was directing"
We need to understand the type of sentence to know what tends to use.
- We used past continuous tense to make the sentence grammatically correct because the sentence contains two continuous action.
- Subject is singular "the police man" and the singular subject needs singular verb
- From the options we understand that the sentence requires the singular verb in past continuous tense as the complete sentence is itself in past tense.
- Other option 'with direct' has directed, are incorrect as They are in future and present tense
Therefore, the correct sentence is "The policeman was directed the traffic when the Accident happened".